2 volumes : 26 cm+

V.1. To the eighteenth century: First civilizations ; Forming of Greek civilization ; Classical and Hellenistic Greece ; Roman Republic ; Empire and Christianity ; Making of Western Europe ; Empires of the early middle ages (800-1000) ; Creation and erosion 200 ; Restoration of an ordered society ; Flowering of medieval civilization ; Urban economy and the consolidation states ; Breakdown and renewal in an age of plague ; Tradition and change in European culture, 1300-1500 ; Reformation in religion ; Economic expansion and a new politics ; v. 2. Since the sixteenth century: War and crisis ; Culture and society in the age of the scientific revolution ; Emergence of the European state system ; Wealth of nations ; Age of enlightenment ; French revolution ; Age of Napoleon ; Foundations of the nineteenth century: politics and social change ; Learning to live with change ; National states and national cultures ; European power: Wealth, knowledge, and imperialism ; Age of progress ; World War and democracy ; Great twentieth-century crisis ; Nightmare: World war II ; New Europe

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